Concord - Boston - Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, April 14, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Perfect
Clear & cool with light westerly wind.
Ponds at Farm & in Camb. [Cambridge] garden frozen over
at sunrise. Middle part of day rather warm.
Farm birds. 6 Fox Sparrows & 5 Juncos
in front of house at breakfast time.
Cambridge Garden birds. (3 - 7 P.M.) 6 Fox
Sparrows & 1 White-throat [White-throated Sparrow] [in  weak song] in Jungle; a
Flicker shouting in lindens; several Grackles;
Robins singing & calling far & near towards
sunset (3 [males] in full song to be heard at once)
Screech Owl started from low branch overhanging
Brewster St. sidewalk, rear of Garden, as I was
strolling there at 7 P.M. He flew up Sparks St.
  Left Farm at 7.45 & took 8.06 train from
Concord. Sat in smoking car with Geo. Keyes &
Geo. White. Reaching Boston called at bird
stores, Portland St. to look for Pigeons etc. but
found nothing desirable save 3 handsome fowl.
Next to our office. Signed deed to estate sold
(Windemere Rd.), sold 37 shs. [shares] West End R.R.
Pref., bought 10 shs. [shares] Lewis Man. Co. Called 
at 53 Devonshire St. where saw Mr. L. [George V. Leverett] & had
talk with Mr. B. [Mr. Brown] about codicil to C's [Caroline Brewster] will. 
Bought seeds at F.F. & R's [Fottler, Fiske, Rawson Co.] & talked with John
Fottler. Still a handsome, vigorous old man.
Lunched at Marston's. Depos'd [Deposited] stock in S. Vaults [Security Vaults]
Home by 3.30. C. & E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] [?]. John Nichols
spent evening & talked much of California.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, April 15, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Fair
Early morn clear & calm. Remainder of
day cloudy with light chill easterly breeze.
  Vegetation very backward & advancing
but slowly. It has been retarded by cold
nights, not over-warm days and frequent
absence of sunshine. Yet the ground is wholly
free from frost & has been for a week or
more except where surface frozen over night. 
Crocuses & snow drops still in fullest bloom
with squills approaching it in sheltered spots.
Grass green on city lawns but not
growing much as yet.
  Garden birds. 2 Robins on lawn, several
in full song at eve; only one Fox Sparrow;
a Flicker shouting all day at intervals;
2 or more Grackles in Jungle; flight call of
Goldfinch heard; also the rich warbling
song of a Bluebird coming from afar, faintly.
  Spent most of day in house & Museum
writing letters & reading war news. Walked
down to St. Johns with C. [Caroline Brewster] at 9.15 but
left her there. Called on Walter D. [Walter Deane] in late
P.M. Miss Allyn at dinner.
E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read Pride & Prejudice to C. [Caroline Brewster] & me this eve.